The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-26
WEALTH ON THE EASTERN SHORE.

The editor of the Easton talbot county, Ledger
recently interviewed one of the wealthy Of
the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with the following
result:
"Who are the must successful Eastern Shore
men in business THAT is, who have got rich the
fastest 2"
"We there are few, if more than one wealthy
Eastern Shoremen, as that term is now used,
and, of course, business opportunities for making
large fortunes are not abundant in any rural Sec
ton.
"Mr. Tome? yes if you call Jacob Tome an
Eastern Shoreman, you must put him down as the
wealthiest by far, and he lives in Port Deposit
which is geographically an Eastern Shore town,
we may call him an Eastern Shoreman.
"Ten millions I should think not but certain
ly he must be worth FIVE or six millions. Heowns
several banks, may bonds, stocks and mortgages
considerable real estate here and immense tracts
of timber lands in the Northwest. Mr.. Tome has
made all his wealth himself and made it chiefly
an old man, but as active and alert in business
matters as ever. He has no children. His pres
ent wife Is his second, and is young woman.
Likely Hon. John A. j. Creswell, his nephew, will
be ni, principal heir.
"Mr. George B. Westcott, Of Kent county, is
another gentleman who has large fortune for
these parts, and is worth probably between one
and two millions, accumulated in a long business
career. Mr.. Westcott has been a very skillful
fnancier. He is also banker, but not to the ex-
tent that Mr.. Tome is. His son, Mr.. C. T. West
cott inherts his fathers business ability and his
propensity for money making. If he has ca
reer as long as his fathers has been (Mr. West
colt, ST., is older than Mr.. Tome, he will be the
rich man of the Shore. Mr. Westcott ST., died
on Tuesday last, aged 81 years.-EDs. UNIoN.1
"Mr. Thomas W. Eliason, of Chestertown, has
also been very successful business man, and has
quite large fortune. AS merchant he has been
very successful likewise as an agriculturist and
he owns some of the fnent farms in Kent, Queen
Anne'S and Talbot counties. I would not be sur
prised If Richard Hynson, OF Chestertown, has
made more money than any other Eeatern Shore
professional man, unless James U. Dennis, Of
Somerset, has beat him in this respect.
eyes, had forgot about Mr. John B. Brown,
of Centrevle. He is a money making lawyer
ari tie report is he is getting rich very fast. COL
Mchonny, Of the same county, is perhaps the
richest farmer we have got On the Shore, as he ia
certainly the largest and is constantly increasing
his bounds.
"There have been no large fortunes made on the
Eastern Shore in farming exclusively. That bus
mess has helped, and the buying and selling of
real estate has materially aided many people in
building up their fortunes and under the old
plantation regime there were some planters whose
broad acres and hundreds of negroes gave them
INC IePutaton vi peiug ricu, Wnen tney were not.
Lots of independent and comfortable farmers we've
got, who never do any other kind of business, but
they are not miionaires. Cultivatng the soil
don's make millionaires.
"Talking of successful men, the Jacksons, of
Wicomico-I mean the lumber people-have made
great deal of money. am told the firm is worth
million, at least and million in that business,
you know, ought to soon double itself. The lum-
Der business must always be profitable one when
rightly conducted"